Festered vs Feltered - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between festered and feltered

is that festered is past tense of fester while feltered is past tense of felter.

(head)

(fester)

(en verb)

To become septic; to become rotten.

* Milton

Wounds immedicable / Rankle, and fester , and gangrene.

To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.

Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester .

* Macaulay

Hatred festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.

To cause to fester or rankle.

* Marston

For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, / And fester'd rankling malice in my breast.

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(head)

(felter)

(en verb)

To clot or mat together like felt.

* Fairfax

'His feltered locks that on his bosom fell.

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